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Æ15 - Trajan ΓΡΙΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Grimenothyrae (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Hermes standing facing with head turned to the left, depicted in full figure. He holds a purse in his extended right hand and a caduceus in his left hand, attributes emblematic of commerce and divine messenger. The figure is rendered in a schematic provincial style, with the encircling Greek ethnic legend ΓΡΙΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΩΝ distributed around the periphery of the field, identifying the issuing civic community of Grimenothyrae. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Grimenothyrae was a minor Phrygian city of negligible political weight, one of dozens of small civic mints operating under the Sardis conventus that produced local bronze almost entirely for market use within their own territory. Issues from this city are rare in any collection — the municipality simply didn't mint in quantity, and what circulated wore hard in agricultural communities with no particular reason to hoard it.